It's not for that, the hype's not from SWEs, it's the next wave of tech savviness seeing some of what's possible (/riding up that peak before disillusionment trough).

There's nothing new, it's 'just' conveniently packaged for the gamers and /r/battlestation owners and distro-ricing crowd to install and run. There'll be similar hype waves where they too are confused because nothing's new when it's easy enough for our not-technically-inclined older relatives etc. to run somehow (not from GitHub!).

Easy install, discord/whatsapp/tg out of the box. And some agent orchestration out of the box where the main LLM can farm out tasks to different models/agents - yes Claude code has some of this too but I think this has more